Juan "Junior" Dominguez-Vidal has microcephaly, a disorder that causes children to have smaller than average heads and, in Junior's case, the inability to speak, among other developmental delays. He mostly uses sign language. But give him his Crayola camera and he creates photos way beyond his age.

George Chen runs a factory in China that makes bamboo flooring he ships to the United States, where his brother, Allen, sells it from an office in Wilsonville, Oregon. Business is good, at several hundred shipping containers a year, and big customers including Costco. But the brothers fear a hike in the value of China's currency, the yuan, which would make the flooring more expensive in dollars, hurting sales. They're scrambling for solutions.

Portland's Chinatown has recently undergone changes that affect the climate and culture in the area. The coining of "The Entertainment District" is bringing different types of businesses and people to Old Town, while some establishments have moved away. This piece addresses controversy surrounding this change from the perspective of owners, managers and patrons of the area and seeks to address the question, "What's next for Chinatown?"

Portland once boasted the countries’ largest Chinese population. Today, Portland’s Chinatown is marked by abandoned buildings and high crime rates, which has caused most of the native Chinese to move out. Although there has been an exodus out of Chinatown, the Chinese community continues to flourish on Portland’s eastside.

The Lan Su Chinese Garden held it's annual lantern lighting ceremony on February 28th to commemorate the Year of the Tiger. It is traditional to end the two week Chinese New Year celebration with a lantern viewing.